Improved car-brake and starrer



titled gaat atout catflirt.

J; M. MCYM'ASTER, or ROCHE-STER, NEW YORK.

Letters Patent No. 92,335,'dated July 6, 1869.

IMPROVBID CAR-BRAKE STARTER The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same,

To all whom it ma/y concern.-

Be it knownthat I, J. M. MCMASTER, of Roches ter, in the county of Monroe, and'State of New York,

have invented a1 certain new and useful- Gar-Brake and Starter; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, inaking part of this specification, in which- Figure l is a side elevation of my invention, having portions broken away to show the arrangement of the gearing.

will be understood by reference to the drawingsandf.

specification, is to store up the momentum'of a car while stopping, and vuseethe same for starting it.

To enable others to make and use4 my invention, I will describe its construction and operation.

On the axle A, carrying ground- Wheels lc, figs. I and 2, I put two spur-wheels, B and G.

These wheels revolve loosely upon the axle, except when held by pawl a., and ratchet-wheel b, and .pawl a', and ratchet-wheel l1', g. 2.

The ratchet-wheels b and b are rigidly attachedto the axle A, and the 'teeth of one are inclined in an oppositev direction to those of the other, so that one of the wheels, B and 0,'willbe held by its ratchet and pawl, whether the axle is turned backward or forward.

The pawl c is pivoted to the spul-wheel C, and is kept in contact with the ratchet-wheel 11,'by a spring, x, tigs. 1 and 4, and the pawla is similarly arranged upon lthe wheel B.

.The pawls have a projecting lip, g, fig. 2, under which the disks h. and h are moved, to raise the pawls from the ratchet-wheels; saiillips having their inner edges curved or inclined, as shown.

llhe disks lt h slide on the axle A, and have each a groove cnt in their hubs, into which the lowerends of the bami-levers 1) p are fitted for the purpose of operating the disks and pawls.

These hand-lever`s are pivoted to the studs y and y', secured at proper points to the body of the car. lhc spur-wheel B is larger in diameter than the wheel G, and gears into a pinion, f, figs. l and 4, which is rigidly attached to the countershaft D.

The spur-wheel G gears into a pinion, E, revolving loosely on the stud F, which pinion, in turn, gears into the pinion G, also rigidly attached to the shaft D.

vThis latter runs in boxes, secured in any desired manner to the body of ythe car, and to it I attach one end of a coiled spring, H, figs.' 1, 2,'and 4, the other end being attached to the bar J, or other convenient part of the car.

When this spring is wound up bythe momentum of the car, through the medium ofthe gearing, it v checks the revolution of the axle A, and its accumulated power can then be used to assist in starting the lhe operation of 'my invention is as follows: lThen it is desired to stop the car, the hand-levers p p are moved so as to shift the disks h and haway from v.ther ratchet-wheels, and drop the pawls into This causes the spur-wheels B and to revolve with the axle A, and motion is imparted to the countershaft D, winding up the spring and checking the motion of the ground-wheels lo.

The power accumulated in the 'spring H, which is held in cheek by theQcombined action of the ratchetwheels b and b', may now be used in starting the car.

lf the pawl a is lifted by means of the disk h' and lever p', the car is moved in a certain direction; If,

on the contrary, the pawl a is lift-ed, the force ofthe spring is exerted to move the car in the opposite direction. l

When both pawls are lifted from the ratchet-wheels, the axle A is le'ft free to ln'ove in either direction.

I do not coniine myself to the use of the coiled spring, as a straight or elliptic spring may be used, operating a chain wound around the shaft D.

A chain and chain-wheels may be used in place of the gears C E G to produce the reverse motion.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secul'e by Letters Patent, is

The arrangement of the ,gearing B 0 E and fand G, spring H, ratchetwheels b and b', in combination with the sliding disks h and h', and hand-levers p and p', for connecting and disconnecting the pawls a and a', in the manner shown, and for the purposes described.

J. M. MGMASTER.

Witnesses:

J ris/LORENZO GAGE, EDW. E. JOHNSON. 

